Seeing Su Qingluan so upset, Tian Xing'er felt a little embarrassed and annoyed: "We just wanted to invite you to compete with us, if you don't want to, forget it!"
After saying this, he pulled his friends and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Su Qingluan sighed, "Come back! I didn't say I wouldn't go."
Su Qingluan thought for a moment and decided to go and see the "Dou Qiao". She treated it as a custom, but she had more important considerations.
"You agreed?!" Tian Xing'er turned around in surprise, then realized that she might have been too proactive and immediately made an awkward excuse, "You said you wanted to come. I didn't force you."
Oh, after all this time, you are still a little arrogant.
Finally, considering that there is no curfew tonight and everyone will play until very late, Tian Xing'er and the others agreed with Su Qingluan to gather outside the Su family's yard at 10:00 p.m. - which is around 8:00 p.m. in modern time. If the weather is fine, everyone will compete with each other in cleverness.
After seeing off the little girls, Su Qingluan turned around and went back to the house. When she saw her younger brother and sister, they immediately looked over.
"Sister, did they bully you?" The little girl frowned, looking worried.
Although Su Xuanhe didn't say anything, he had a serious face.
Su Qingluan shook her head and said it was okay, then started checking her younger brother and sister's calligraphy homework.
At this time, Yang came in and greeted the three children: "It's noon, we should go!" Then she turned to Su Qingluan and asked, "Don't your friends want to go to the night market in town together?"
Su Qingluan shook her head and added, "But we agreed to compete with each other tonight."
Upon hearing this, Madam Yang smiled with great satisfaction. "Sometimes I always feel that you are too sensible. I never see you playing with your peers. You are always thinking about making money to supplement the family income. It makes me very happy to see you go out with your friends like this."
Su Qingluan was stunned when she heard this, and felt something warm slowly flowing through her heart.
After a moment, she said softly, "I'm sorry to have made you worried."
The three children took off their dusty coats, revealing the brand new clothes underneath. Su Guangfu and his wife also changed into their newly bought shoes. After the family of five was ready, they walked towards the town.
The weather was a bit hot and humid, but fortunately the sun was blocked by clouds.
Although we can’t see the blue sky in this kind of weather, it would be nice if we could avoid being exposed to the sun in this hot summer.
Su Qingluan originally wanted to take advantage of the large number of people on the Qixi Festival today to come up with some new snacks and sell them at the stall to make some money.
However, now she has the income from Hongfulou to back her up, so she will not go bankrupt; secondly, many food stalls today must be trying their best to attract customers, so she will look at what kind of food is available in this era and whether it is possible for her to "break new ground" and avoid the squeeze of product homogeneity.
For the above considerations, Su Qingluan finally gave up the idea of doing business on this day.
The moment she and her family entered the county town, she felt that perhaps it was the right decision not to do business today.
When Su Qingluan and the others arrived in town today, it was already past noon. Usually by this time, many breakfast stalls had already packed up and started to go home.
And now, not only do some people go home, it is even busier than when business is at its peak on ordinary streets!
Unlike ordinary people who are always in a hurry, people today are obviously wearing brighter clothes, and there are more young men and women on the streets.
Since Su Qingluan traveled through time, she has gained some understanding of the Sheng Dynasty, which did not exist in the history she was familiar with. Generally speaking, although it was also a feudal monarchy, it was not an era like the Ming and Qing Dynasties where the rules and dogmas were too perverted. In fact, the rules among the people were even fewer than those of the nobles.
So Su Qingluan could see young men and women shoulder to shoulder on the streets. Although it was not like in modern society where men and women were eager to hug each other on the street, if young men and women liked each other, they would not hesitate to "exchange glances".
Of course, it is more about "expressing emotions through objects".
At least along the way, Su Qingluan had seen three or five times young girls handing carefully embroidered handkerchiefs, fan covers, and other handicrafts to the young men they liked. If the men did not refuse, the two of them could walk slowly along the street and chat.
If a man has a crush on a woman, he will also give her ornaments such as fan pendants or other personal belongings.
Is this the ancient version of "blind date day"? Su Qingluan silently complained: These young men and women who exchanged tokens of love are only in their early twenties, and the youngest look only fourteen or fifteen years old, still half-grown children...
Just as Su Qingluan was lost in thought, a slight touch on her hand brought her thoughts back to the real world.
"Sister, sister!" Su Xueyan pointed, "There's paper-cuts for sale over there, they look so good!"
"Tsk, paper cutting is nothing. I think sugar painting is more fun." Su Xuanhe pointed unconvincedly at the master at another stall who was scooping a spoonful of syrup from the pot and starting to paint.
Su Qingluan looked in the direction her brother pointed, and sure enough, the candy figurine maker scooped out the syrup, tilted his wrist slightly, and the syrup turned into crystal clear amber silk threads, outlining exquisite patterns.
The most popular sugar figures today are the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Of course, there are many other characters, some real and some legendary that no one has ever seen.
"Do you want a sugar man?" Su Qingluan asked her younger brother and sister with her head down.
The younger sister Su Xueyan asked for a Weaver Girl, but the younger brother did not ask for a Weaver Girl or a Cowherd, but asked for Zhu Bajie with a nine-toothed rake.
Yang and Su Guangfu stayed at the back, separating their children from the crowd around them. Only when they were taking out money did they come forward. Otherwise, they let Su Qingluan take her younger brothers and sisters to stroll and play in front.
Su Qingluan and her group set up stalls in the town every day, and their stalls were in the same place every day. So even though they were just taking a casual walk today, they unknowingly arrived at the place where they set up their stalls every day.
Aunt Yang was measuring the size of cloth for a customer, while on the other side, Skinny Monkey had sold all the eggs he had on hand today and was preparing to pack up and go home.
Aunt Yang sold the cloth and was bending down to put the copper coins she received into a wooden box beside her when she felt a row of shadows looming in front of her.
She subconsciously asked, "What kind of fabric does the customer want? How much?"
The man didn't answer.
Aunt Yang had no choice but to ask again, but still no answer.
She asked impatiently, "Are you going to buy it or not?! It's a big holiday, if you have nothing to do, don't be my business here!"
As she spoke, she suddenly looked up and laughed the next moment.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
